Borchers Receives IBM Research Award
By Shawna Carter
New Mexico Tech mathematics professor Brian Borchers recently received an IBM Faculty Award for $20,000 in recognition of his extensive research in Semi Definite Programming (SDP) and the development of a software package called CSDP that solves SDP problems. View Entire Article »
NMT Graduate Student Association Hosts the First Four-Corners Region Research Conference
By Jayme Margolin
New Mexico Tech's Graduate Student Association (GSA) organized and hosted the first annual research conference, "Standing at a Crossroad: Making the Transition from Student to Professional through Research and Publishing," which took place on February 16 and 17. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Strengthens Research Ties to Chinese Entities
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. L?pez and one of his top university administrators recently were in China, working to strengthen ongoing research collaborations between the research university and PetroChina Company Limited, the largest oil and gas company in the People's Republic of China. View Entire Article »
Tech Student Develops Science Curriculum for Children
By Shawna Carter
April Hoy, a native of Santa Fe and a graduate student enrolled in New Mexico Tech's Master of Science Teaching (MST) program, has developed several innovative teaching techniques to help teach young inclusion classroom students science concepts, keeping them interested in science. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech is Key Member in Energy Research Partnership
By George Zamora
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the selection of a New Mexico Tech-led consortium to receive a ten-year contract to administer a nearly $500 million research program designed to develop technologies to make extraction of ultra-deepwater oil and gas resources, as well as unconventional onshore gas resources, economically viable. View Entire Article »
Phillips Co-Authors Paper in Science
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech hydrology professor Fred M. Phillips is the co-author of a research paper published in a recent issue of the prestigious journal Science. View Entire Article »
N M Tech Research Division Given High-Tech Laser System
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech's Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (EMRTC) is the new owner of a $4.5 million specialized laser unit that allows the research division to cut and form energetic and non-energetic materials with powerful, ultra-short pulses of energy that last only a few hundred femto-seconds. View Entire Article »
Hirschfeld Wins Best Paper Award
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech materials engineering professor Deidre Hirschfeld is a co-author of a research paper that received a "best paper award" at the 2006 International Thermal Spray Conference & Exposition, which was held earlier this year in Seattle, Wash. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Scientists Study Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration in Mountain Areas
By George Zamora
Over the course of the last two decades, hydrologists and other scientists have used emerging technologies such as satellite optical remote sensing to develop and refine several operational evapotranspiration (ET) algorithms that are now routinely used in hydrological studies in New Mexico and worldwide. View Entire Article »